White's Ferry

Historic White's Ferry is the last of 100 ferries that used to operate on the Potomac River. The ferry connects Whites Ferry Road in Montgomery County, Maryland with a road by the same name in Loudoun County, Virginia. Former Confederate officer Elijah V. White named his ferry boat in honor of his former commander, General Jubal Anderson Early.

The business began about 1828 at a site known as Conrad's Ferry. In 1920, ferry owner Charles Ashby Williams put a Model T gasoline engine in a rowboat beside a new skiff he had built in 1919. This photo shows the current 24-car ferry (three rows of 8 cars).